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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Movie Review: The Great Silence

The Great Blizzard of 1899 proves especially cold for the
townspeople of Snow Hill, Utah.The tiny
hamlet is surrounded by murderous outlaws who’ve taken refuge in the mountains,
or so the local authorities would have the citizenry believe.These so-called outlaws are merely poor people
who’ve been forced to fend for themselves.To make matters worse, a price has been placed on each of their
heads.The bounty hunters looking to
collect are a rather dishonorable bunch, led by a bloodthirsty rogue known only
as Loco (Klaus Kinski).In this snowy
wasteland, a gunslinger known as Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) proves to be
the only salvation for those seeking true justice.

The Great Silence
is a 1968 spaghetti western directed and partially written by Sergio Corbucci,
known in many circles as the “other” Sergio.That designation is rather curious, seeing as how Corbucci’s
contributions to the genre are at least as significant as those of Sergio Leone.Luckily, Quentin Tarantino’s superb Django Unchained has rekindled interest
in such films, hence why I’ve decided to review this one.The
Great Silence film is among Django
Unchained’s many influences.As
always, my love of Tarantino’s style has prompted me to seek out his
inspirations.In this case, my curiosity
was rewarded with perhaps the most haunting western I’ve seen since Clint
Eastwood’s Unforgiven.

One thing that has always intrigued me about Spaghetti
Westerns is their gritty sense of style.While many of the classic American westerns I’ve seen often feel too
clean and staged, Italian filmmakers offer something a bit more akin to cinéma
vérité.Zooms of all kinds are
used.Many of the vistas are less than
picturesque.Characters are often
unshaven, and possess unspeakable table manners.Their clothes are worn and their lips
chapped.The Great Silence adds a stark, snow covered landscape to this
unattractive mix, which adds a pervading sense of loneliness to the
proceedings.Snow Hill, and the surrounding
areas, feel like a land that has been forsaken by the American dream.

As is standard for the genre, none of the characters are
exactly pure.All seem to have a bit of
dirt on them, even the hero.He is,
after all, a killer.It just so happens
that kills the right people, and often for the right reasons.Silence is like a parody of the persona that
Eastwood developed in Sergio Leone’s Dollars
trilogy.He’s a mute who was made that
way by an unspeakable act of violence.Therefore he utters not a single word of dialogue throughout the entire
movie.Whereas Blondie aka “The Man With
No Name” was the proverbial “man of few words,” Silence is a man of no words at
all.While there’s an undertone of dark humor
to certain scenes, there is nothing inherently funny about the character.

Silence’s choice of weaponry leaves quite an
impression.Instead of the standard
issue six-shooter, he packs a Mauser C96 with a wooden stock and holster.This suggests the encroachment of modern
civilization on the Old West.Times are
changing, and the age of outlaws and bounty hunters having free reign is coming
to an end. The exact same thing was
suggested by the Colt M1911 Star Model B pistols carried by the title characters
in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch.

The film is innovative in other ways as well.It offers a steamy interracial romance
between the title character and Pauline, a Black woman.Pauline is played to the very sexy Vonetta
McGee.She went on to have a career in
the Blaxploitation genre, and it’s easy to see why.She’s a pleasant to look at, though it’s hard
to get a real grasp on her line readings do to the poorly dubbed dialogue.It’s interesting to note that the film pulled
off this little hat trick mere months before the release of 100 Rifles, which controversially paired
Jim Brown with Raquel Welch.

Loco, as played by Klaus Kinski, oozes sliminess and greed.There’s never a moment in the film where he
doesn’t seem to be up to something.As
with most such villains, the viewer will be praying for his death upon
witnessing his treachery.However, The Great Silence offers a world full of
harsh truths instead of easy answers.Ennio
Morricone’s score punctuates such sentiments.It’s not nearly as iconic as his work in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy, but it’s infinitely
more haunting.Its chilling notes will
linger in the viewer’s psyche forever.

The Great Silence
is one Hell of Western, offering a truly alternate take on the genre at a time
when such things were the rare exception as opposed to the general rule.Its bleak tone makes The Wild Bunch seem almost optimistic by comparison.Nevertheless, it’s as rewarding an experience
as I’ve ever had with a film of this kind.Though it trampled my spirit into the dirt, I can’t wait to watch it again.

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